GET /api/v1/intelligence/salaries/calculate?role=ai-engineer&city=san-francisco
{
"role": {
"slug": "ai-engineer",
"title": "AI Engineer"
},
"city": {
"slug": "san-francisco",
"name": "San Francisco",
"state": "CA",
"cost_of_living_multiplier": 1.35
},
"estimate": {
"low": 130000,
"median": 174000,
"high": 228000,
"currency": "USD",
"period": "annual",
"source_breakdown": {
"computed_from_role_baseline": 1
}
},
"total_compensation": {
"base": 174000,
"equity": 44000,
"bonus": 18000,
"signing": 10000,
"total": 246000
},
"comparison": {
"national_baseline": 133000
},
"citation": "Orbyt Intelligence MODELS an AI Engineer in San Francisco, CA at $174,000 base. This is a computed estimate, not an observed wage: it is not drawn from BLS, from any wage survey, or from reported pay, and it must not be cited as one.",
"observed": {
"available": true,
"scope": "metro",
"source": "bls_oes",
"release": "May 2025 release",
"occupation_code": "15-1252",
"occupation_title": "Software Developers",
"metro": "San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA",
"percentile_25": 163500,
"median": 186640,
"percentile_75": 219670,
"currency": "USD",
"period": "year",
"employed_workers": 69030,
"url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151252.htm"
},
"assumptions": [
"Base salary derived from national baseline for AI Engineer ($133,000) adjusted by San Francisco's cost-of-living multiplier (1.35x) and a fixed role-and-city variance (0.97x), rounded to the nearest $1,000.",
"This figure is COMPUTED, not observed: it is a role baseline scaled by a cost-of-living multiplier, and no published wage observation enters it. Do not cite it as a BLS figure. The published BLS OES wage for the occupation this role maps to is in the 'observed' block."
],
"page_url": "https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-jobs/salaries/ai-engineer/san-francisco"
}